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Hard to Believe.... What is the origin of "honeymoon"? In the old days people wanted their marriage to start on a sweet note. It was therefore customary for newlyweds to drink mead for a month. Mead was a drink made from honey. The "moon" refers to the period of thirty days or one month that the couple was expected to drink the mead. After the first month, the couples came face to face with reality; they realized that their affection, like the moon, would wax and wane. By the way, the word "honeymoon" need not always be used to refer to the holiday that newly married couples take immediately after marriage. The term is now being used to refer to an early stage in any activity when people are happy with each other because everything is going smoothly.

Factoids -  Meaning -  an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact ( or) a brief or trivial item of news or information . W ATER - World Water Day is celebrated on March, 22nd every year. Between 6 and 9 million people die annually of thirst. Seventy percent of the water used worldwide is used for agriculture. Australia is the continent with the least rainfall, apart from Antarctica. ANIMALS - African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with. There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India. A house fly lives only 14 days. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world. An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h (43mph). An annoyed camel will spit at a person. 75% of wild birds die before they ...